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Defense Industrialist

Mar 10, 2016

A full-contact sport

By James Hasik

Transferring military technology takes time, teams, and money—for now. Technology transfer and national security—everyone talks about it, and most everyone needs it. This week the Atlantic Council hosted a discussion with some European diplomats on just how to make it happen, and afterwards, we jotted down some further thoughts. Transferring or co-developing technologies effectively demands […]

Defense Industry Defense Technologies

Press Release

Mar 8, 2016

President Obama Nominates Chris Brummer to Commodity Futures Trading Commission

By Atlantic Council

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama announced Thursday his intent to nominate Chris Brummer, C. Boyden Gray Fellow on Global Finance and Growth for the Atlantic Council’s Global Business and Economics Program and Project Director and Founder of the Atlantic Council’s Transatlantic Finance Initiative, as a Commissioner on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC).

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Albright Joins Al Arabiya to Discuss the Middle East Strategy Task Force Trip to the Middle East

By Madeleine Albright

Watch the full interview here.

Middle East

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Albright and Hadley Join Sky News Arabia to Discuss the Middle East Strategy Task Force Trip to the Region

By Madeleine Albright and Steve Hadley

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Middle East

In the News

Mar 8, 2016

Albright Joins Al Arabiya (English) to Discuss the Middle East Strategy Task Force Trip to the Middle East

By Madeleine Albright

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Middle East

Defense Industrialist

Mar 5, 2016

The defense economics of John McCain, Part 2

By James Hasik

How more of “Economics 101” would slowly restructure the US armed forces Senator John McCain has a penchant for what the late Phil Hartman of Saturday Night Live might have called Simple Caveman Economics. As I review the pronouncements from his perch at the Senate Armed Services Committee, McCain seems to hew markedly to four […]

Defense Industry Economy & Business

Atlantic Council Strategy Paper Series

Mar 4, 2016

A US strategy for sustainable energy security

By Scowcroft Center

On Friday, March 4, 2016 from 9:30 – 11:00 a.m. the Strategy Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Brent Scowcroft Center on International Security released its second Atlantic Council Strategy Paper, “A US Strategy for Sustainable Energy Security.” The paper, written by the Atlantic Council’s Eurasian Energy Futures Initiative Director David Koranyi and which features a […]

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Mar 4, 2016

Top News: US drone kills four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen

By MENASource

A US drone strike killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants in a car in the southern Yemeni province of Shabwa on Friday, local officials and residents said.

In the News

Mar 4, 2016

Middle East Strategy Task Force Report Featured in The Hill

By Atlantic Council

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Bremain vs Brexit

Mar 3, 2016

European Official Goes to Bat for TTIP

By Ashish Kumar Sen

Trade deal would ‘help to write the rules of the global economy in the twenty-first century,’ says European Commission Vice President Jyrki Katainen A transatlantic trade deal, currently being negotiated by the United States and Europe, would strengthen bonds and stimulate growth on both sides of the Atlantic, a senior European official said at the […]

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